Improvement in carriage-window frames



F. BAKER.

Carriage-Widow.

No. 64.829. Patented May 2 1, 1867.

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To ALLWHOM 1T MAY o'oNoERN; l

Be it known that I FRANCIS BAKER, oi' the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and" useful Improvement in Carriages, and that the following description, taken inconnection with the accompa.

nying drawings hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvement, by which my invention may be distinguished lfrom all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The present invention relates more particularly to that' class of carriages commonly known and called landaus, although it can be `applied to other carriages, especially those having low or half doors; and the invention consists in a novel arrangement-oi` parts for 'supporting the glass or window-frames therein, as 'will be now described, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the frame of the door, with the lower portion of such frame in vertical section to show the mode of hanging the window-frame therein; and

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section taken in the plane of theline azz, g. 1.

A, in the drawings, represents the frame to the door, the lower portion or half B of which it is intended to box up or encase with the upper half or portion C open, but provided with a window-frame, D, hung to and between the side-pieces E to the drier-frame. This window-frame is suspended by-pivots a to the upper end of upright bars F arranged to slide or move in grooves or ways G, in the side or end-pieces of the box portion B of the door. These bars Rare connected together through a horizontal cross-bar, H, below ,which the said side-bars extend, and each has in its lower ends a stud or pin, I, that projects outward therefrom into the cut-out portion J of the side or end-pieces to the closed or boxed-up part of the door. The pins I are -each secured to the outer ends of bent springs K, permanently aixed to under side of cross-bar H of the uprights F, hereinbefore referred to. L, a bent spring, secured in box portion of door, below and to the under side of its upper cross-rail M, with its two ends resting upon the lower arms of right-angular shaped hooks or catches N, placed within and against the inside edge of the side-pieces of the door. b and e raised flanges or lips along the top of rail M, in and between which flanges the lower rail or strip of the window-frame sets, when such frame has been suliiciently drawn out of the box portion of the door to be brought over and into the same, swinging upon the uprights, where, by the action of thebent spring L compressed through the drawing of the catches or=l hooks N by the studs or pins I, it is held, the window-frame then standing in the closed position shown. l I I To open the window raise it from its seat upon the rail M to the door, suilciently to clear its inside flange 6, when, bringing the lower strip ofthe window-frame over the opening in the top edge -of the box portion Vto the door, it will then fall down into the same from its own weight or gravity.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A. carriage-window frame, swivelled orpivoted to uprights F, arranged to move in and through the carriage body and bent springs K or L, hooks or catches N, nndstuds I; substantially as and for the purpose described.

FRANCIS BAKER.

Witnesses: v

WM. F. McNAMAnA, ALBEM W. Bnowx. 

